Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.